Food & agriculture Dec 4
A write-up of the 2008 Soil Association conference
‘Super ants’ threaten UK gardens, scientists warn
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions
Staff
Taking Evolution Seriously
One widespread claim about the current crisis of industrial society holds that it sets the stage for an “evolutionary leap” into a more Utopian world. Does this hope make sense of our predicament, or does it simply wrap the borrowed prestige of Darwin’s theory around belief in a miracle?
United States – Dec 3
The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local
James L. Jones’ energy views worry some environmentalists
Youth Embarrassed By U.S. Delegation at Climate Conference
Geopolitics – Dec 3
Iraq: The Thirteenth Hour
‘2025’ Report: A World of Resource Strife
Syria hit by double blow on oil prices and falling supplies
Culture Shift – Dec 3
Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New New Left
How McDonald’s finally got green
Millennials: are you mad enough yet?
Food & agriculture – Dec 3
Unexpected benefits From pasture farming
Qatar looks to grow food in Kenya
Agrofuel proponents hone tactics
Peak oil – Dec 3
Charley Maxwell interview
IEA WEO 2008 – Fossil fuel ultimates and CO2 emissions scenarios
World oil forecasts using Wikipedia megaprojects, Dec 2008
Court of Appeals judge: The bell tolls for hydrocarbons: what’s next?
Preventing deforested moonscapes – part II
After an oil peak, pressure will increase to cut trees to serve as fuel for heating and cooking fires, as well as to clear land for agriculture. Many other countries who have faced this pressure have become bleak places prone to soil erosion, mudslides, dust storms and finally, desertification.
Transport – Dec 2
Fuel lost while sitting in line?
Whatever happened to the hydrogen economy?
Boris Johnson axes London congestion charge extension
BP fights self in phone booth, loses match
British Petroleum ranks as one of the lead members of the peak oil denial club. ASPO’s Colin Campbell and Kjell Aleklett both took BP to task for recent comments slamming the peak oil perspective, even denying its validity.
Waste – Dec 2
From the dump to the pump
Wasted opportunities
Is it still worth recycling?
Recession and less holiday travel: the Earth and I are lovin’ it
At this historic juncture many of us are not only aware of financial insolvency, but geophysical limits to growth as well. It’s all related. We hold that the consumer economy and its ecological support system are in such dire shape that another cycle of material opulence may not happen.
